Abstract

This study aimed to elucidate the relationship between the social style of personality of victims of school violence on depressive symptoms. Total 751 adolescents, 15∼17 years of age, were finally analyzed for this study. Samples were all middle or high school students and collected by multistage cluster sampling with stratified random sampling. Students who had a victim experience of school violence showed higher depression scale than those who had not. In the social style of personality, the withdrawns showed higher depression scale than the assertives and the compliants. Moreover, the degree of victim experience of school violence influenced the effect of the social style of personality on depression scale. These results showed that the social style of personality is directly related to the degree of depression in victims of school violence. It is suggested that a counseling based on the social style of victim's personality is needed to a proper victim management in school violence. (Korean J Str Res 2008;16:21∼27)

• Keywords: School violence, Personality, Depression, Victim, Social style